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Re:React.js koans by jt2190 on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:36PM (#9801294) 

  > Which was later watered down to just exercises...
What if the word "koan" were understood to mean "excercise"?
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Re:React.js koans by corysama on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:30PM (#9801869)
That's the problem. Someone made a nice set of "programming koans" that were (koans + exercises). But, that has spawned new "programming koans" that are just a set of (exercises) with no koans. Koans are supposed to involve practice [0]. But, does practicing a set of (koans + exercises - koans) have koan-nature? ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan

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